Il Conte Di Montecristo Quotes & Sayings

You're too worried about figuring out what you can believe about all of this, and then figuring out how to control it. That's how most people approach their lives. Way I feel, though, after a lot of years of living? Not much of what matters in the world is under your control. You don't dictate, you adapt. That's all. So stop trying to control this, and start trying to listen to what it's telling you. — Michael Koryta

The glass bottle does not know its own contents. It has no idea whether it is a vessel for the most delicious apple cider, a lovingly crafted wine, or a bitter poison. — Lang Leav

The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself
to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself. — Laozi

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work. — Camille Paglia

If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else. — Sammy Davis Jr.

We don't have the flexibility of changing the bid amount. We can go through the whole process and someone else could beat us by giving more. — Thomas Raymond Kelly

I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing. — Tim Hetherington

Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he is; yet so are animals, and even plants. They too were born, long ago, into a physico-chemical world, a world they never made. — Karl Popper

There Was an Old Woman Called Nothing-at-All,
Who Lived in a Dwelling Exceedingly Small;
A Man Stretched His Mouth to the Utmost Extent,
And Down at One Gulp House and Old Woman Went. — Sharon Olds

( ... ) exposure is not a measurable resource. If someone asks you to write for exposure, ask them how much exposure. Like, have them measure it. "Will it be ten picameters of exposure? I usually ask at least seven nanoliters' worth." If they can prove it, fuck yeah, great. But exposure is a hard thing to prove. Let me utter my refrain yet again: Writers, like hikers, can die from exposure. — Chuck Wendig

Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job. — Michel Faber